Business
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Abrdn boss Stephen Bird quits asset manager
Stephen Bird has stepped down as the investment group's chief executive, but will remain at the company until the end of June to enable a smooth...
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Coventry's £750m takeover of Co-op Bank confirmed
The West Midlands group agreed to buy the Co-op Bank last month in a £780million deal to create Britain's seventh-largest lender, with millions of...
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AJ Bell shares slip as founder Andy Bell flogs £28.1m stake
AJ Bell shares fell on Friday after the investment platform's co-founder sold a large chunk of shares.
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NCAA signs off on deal that would change landscape of college sports — paying student-athletes
A major change could be coming for college athletes — they may soon start getting paid.
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BUSINESS LIVE: Co-op Bank takeover agreed; Abrdn boss to exit; Washout April for retail sales
Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Coventry Building Society, Co-Op Bank, Abrdn John Wood Group and GSK.
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MARKET REPORT: Water shares suffer election call washout
A day after Rishi Sunak said called an election on July 4, shares in Severn Trent, United Utilities and South West Water owner Pennon tumbled.
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Utilities shares sink as investors weigh surprise general election
London-listed utilities shares sank on Thursday as investors digested the looming general election.
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'Diddy' facing lawsuit by another woman who says she was drugged, sexually assaulted by hip-hop mogul
A woman filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her after meeting him more than 20...
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Frontier CEO urges crackdown on ‘rampant abuse’ of airport wheelchair service
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle says there's "rampant abuse" of wheelchair service at airports: "We are healing so many people."
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Inside the fringe worldview of RFK Jr.’s VP pick
Nicole Shanahan’s politics changed drastically amid the pandemic and her daughter’s autism diagnosis. Now she’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice...
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Boeing expects a 2024 cash burn, slow recovery of airplane deliveries amid crisis, CFO says
Boeing will burn through cash this year and deliveries of new planes won’t improve in the second quarter from the first, as the manufacturer deals...
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Boost for GSK as US court rejects woman's claims heartburn drug Zantac caused her cancer
A jury in Chicago agreed with GSK that Angela Valadez, 89, had not proven her colon cancer was at least in part the result of her Zantac use.